Simple Portrait :: Pixel Art Detail

Nice, I like the colors and the hair looks great.

the blending was never meant to be effective on a light background - it's intended for a plain dark blue, but I'd be scolded for posting it like that.

Just one instance where the rules end up causing the work to suffer a little.

otherwise everything is fine ... i ruin every picture of mine with dithering

y did u blend it on a background? u say its transparent

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maybe u meant to make an EFFICIENT selout but failed

It's too low if anything, the eyes are halfway down the head so the hair should be up so the distance between the scalp and the eyes are roughly halfway down the head.

Well i lowered the eyebrows (which i think was the biggest thing) and raised the ear a pixel, now i wonder if the hair isn't too high...>.<

Uhm, I started checking different people's faces (IRL) after reading the comments, and noticed that the top of the ears align with the bottom of the eyebrows in most of the cases.
Of course there are exceptions, since humans come in many ways (and some even pluck their eyebrows and all) but should be roughly around there.

hm, well i just can't see things that way.  If i wasn't sure the ear needed to me moved up, i am 100% certain that it should NOT be moved left.  If you are still referencing anime conventions as gas was, my response is the same - show me something by people who can draw real people and i'll believe that the placement is wrong.

I think, if anything, it's the aforementioned high eyebrows that makes people think they are lower.

before 4-5 days I watch that work again and read comments of gas - I agreed yep he is right - for me ear must be maybe 2-3 px up and 1-2 px in left ...

else keep good works - because they inspire me and sorry for my poor english :)

Such lovely colours

Got me fooled.
The image is much better than the preview. Great work.

"always top of ear - top of eyes" is actually what I was saying. It's all up to you anyway.

meh, i've never seen that used as a measure (always top of ear - top of eyes)

what's up with the anime reference tho?  show me da vinci or rubens (or someone else respectable) and i'll listen :P

The place where the ear meet the head (not really sure how to say that right) and eyes should be on the same line, right? It seems to me the ear is far below this line. At least that's how I see the angle.

Edit. Illustration speaks better than me.

you find the ear to be particularly low?  particularly for the slightly chin-up, it doesn't seem that way to me.  Everything is right on a level like it ought to be from my angle.

Interesting colors as usual and pretty unique style.

Such a low placed ear (comparing to an eye position) is what disturbs me here. It seems as it placed somewhere on a neck now.

The initial portrait looked odd, an odd mix of genders. The current one's sexual identity is much clearly defined.
The raised eyebrows do give the eyes a somewhat feminine/hollywood plastic surgery look. Men, regardless of age, have lower brows.
The lighting on the face looks odd, doesn't help defined the shapes, looks a bit random and inconsistent. Try using the shading to develop more his forms.

Pretty nice colors you have for the hair (and for the other hair palettes you've shown at Pixelation).
Good luck with your project, your persistance is inspiring :)

Man watching the progress on pixelation for this has been so fun. You've worked this over so many times and the result sure does pay off. good work adarias, a sexellent job!

A little effeminate..

Tricky preview.

Looks very good.

look at good and serious as must be !

Than make new girl avi so good  as all your works hehehe

This is superb! I really need to practice portraits...

it's the funny thing about the characters is that, because the portraits all need to be used countless times, i'm not sure whether I can put much emotion in there, you know?  like even if someone is almost always happy, if there's one part where something serious happens and they are around, that one really retarded moment if they are still smiling.

It looks very nice, but somehow I miss a bit of expression on his face ( don't know if you intended it this way, but he looks like he's staring and he looks emotionles)...

(And there's nothing wrong with drawing/pixeling/portraiting women more than men, is there? )

yeah, it's only cut off at the neck because portraits are frankenstiened and there are no shoulder sets past WIP stage :P

and hmm, that line is interesting, probably from the aforementioned frankenstiening.  xonsider it fixed :P

Hmm, it's hard for me to pick out anything that might be "wrong" with this... I do seem to zoom on to his mouth when I look at this though, and it seems really small once you see the rest of the head. You're probably going for a kind of pseudo anime thing though, so it works.

Also, the line of pixels between his eyes seems pretty off. Everything else has this nice flow to it, then a line shows up, heh.

But, I'm really reaching to find errors here. This is a great portrait, and I think the hair is fantastic. It looks soft, and it look natural like hair. The subtle hue shifts in the skin also rock. :)

Very nice, I really like how the skin tones were done.
The way his head is framed in that circle really bothers me though, I feel like it should be positioned higher up so a bit of his hair is cut off and a bit of his shoulder is shown. The neck is sort of a bad place to cut the portrait off